World Cup winner Joachim Löw has hinted that he could leave his post in the near future, having been in charge of the national team since 2006.
In his playing career, Löw was an attacking midfielder and had spells with SC Freiburg, VfB Stuttgart, Eintracht Frankfurt and Karlsruher SC, finishing his career at Schaffhausen, Winterthur and finally bowing out in 1995 at Frauenfeld, in his career he scored eighty-eight goals. He played for the West Germany national side but only made four appearances for the province.
Following his retirement as a professional player, he went on to manage most notably Fenerbahçe, VfB Stuttgart and FK Austria Wien before being appointed as the Die Mannschaft head coach in 2006.
In his time as coach, he can boast winning the World Cup in the summer after a third place finish in 2010 as well as guiding them to the Euro 2008 final and the semi finals of the same competition in 2012, sadly both finishing runners up.
After the tournament in Brazil, the 54 year-old revealed that he plans to stay in the coveted role of German national team manager until after Euro 2016, but since then he has hinted that he could move on and return to club football in the near future, which club he favours is yet to be seen.
"I would rule nothing out just now," he told Kicker. "It's very conceivable of course that at some point I will coach a club team again. Why not?
"I've trained myself to think about my future only every two years. As a coach I know that there will be a decision after every tournament. In 2012, the mood was very different from 2010. It changes.”
"But there is no curse of the title, as I sometimes read." He concluded.